I seriously cannot believe that Ferrari driver. He must be the pinnacle of Italian arrogance.
"I saw him coming, but decided to cut him off anyway because I am Italian, was driving a Ferrari and felt like it".
I seriously hope he gets a huge bill in the mail from AF Corse, such behavior really shouldn't be tolerated.
Also, great sportsmanship of Toyota by apologizing with the entire team instead of sending a lone prey like Nakajima over there 👍
Well, with the Fezza, it was more of a racing incident. Also, it is up to the driver to say: "Sorry mate, didn't see you there". Although to be honest, I think it was pretty poor form for that driver to not even say anything even though he lead to the driver getting a broken vertebrate....
The Toyota to Nissan... both are Japanese, wouldn't they both realise that they would have to apologise and put it behind them? Also, I got the sense that everyone was actually behind the Nissan project as they were actually curious at how it would perform at Le Mans. It was an exciting project and that car didn't really affect all the other cars in the race in terms of points and podiums.
Additionally, if you're one of the fast cars, its embarrassing when you accidently cause another car or driver to crash. Imagine you are a football player on the top rung of the game. You're playing against the team from the bottom of the league, like 5 different leagues down. If you tackle someone that, at the professional level, they would brush it off, but with these amateur players, ended up breaking their leg, you would be insanely embarrassed and really quite angry at yourself. Toyota must have been feeling that when they realised they effectively ran the DeltaWing off the road.
Plus, the DeltaWing had lots of fans too and media interest.